From The Archive

Episode 629 – From The Archive: Reginald Dixon

This weeks show is from the archive and features Reginald Dixon at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool Wurlitzer.

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Music Played

1. Sig Tune: I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
2. ‘The Belle Of New York’ Selection
3. Russian Rag
4. The Singing Piano
5. Chicken Reel
6. Memories Of Song: Over The Rainbow/Miss Annabelle Lee/Love And Marriage/Because You’re Mine/Ragtime Cowboy Joe
7. Theme From ‘Limelight’
8. Sing Song: Ship Ahoy/Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner/Let Me Call You Sweetheart/Margie/We’ll Keep A Welcome
9. I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

All tracks played on the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer, broadcast 1958-1969. Recording from the TOEnc Archive.

Episode 620 – From The Archive: Harold Smart

This weeks show is from the archive and features Harold Smart at the BBC Möller Theatre Organ.

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Music Played

1. Sig Tune: Let Yourself Go
2. The Girl I Left In Rome
3. Shortnin’ Bread
4. True Love
5. Yodellin’ Rag
6. That’s Right
7. The Baffi
8. Pink Champagne
9. Regimental Rock
10. Whistling Kettle
11. The Drawl
12. “No Business Like Showbusiness” Selection
13. Sig Tune: Let Yourself Go

All tracks played on the 5/27 Möller in the BBC Jubilee Chapel, Hoxton, broadcast 23rd February 1957. Recordings from the Nigel Ogden Archive.

Episode 614 – Farewell Mr Blackpool

This weeks show is from the archive and features extracts from Reginald Dixons farewell concert which took place just over 55 years ago.

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Music Played

1. Sig Tune: I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
2. Blaze Away/Ca C’est Paris/Imperial Echoes/The Dambusters
3. Songs From The Shows: Tea For Two/A Wonderful Guy/A Batchelor Gay/I Could Have Danced All Right/Indian Love Call/Goodby-ee/Edelweiss
4. The Dream Of Olwen
5. Lady Of Spain/The Harry Lime Theme/Jealousy/12th Street Rag/Charmaine/Bluebell Polka/Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 Finale/I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

All tracks played on the 3/14 Wurlitzer in the Tower Ballroom Ballroom, Blackpool, broadcast 2nd April 1970.

Recordings from the Damon Cox.

Episode 602 – From The Archive: Horace Finch

This weeks show is from the archive and features Horace Finch at two Blackpool Wurlitzers.

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Music Played

1. Sig Tune: On the Prom Prom Promenade
2. Lady Of Spain
3. Tuxedo Junction
4. Oasis
5. Autumn Leaves
6. Harry Woods Hits Selection

All tracks played on the 3/13 Wurlitzer in the Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, broadcast 23rd January 1959.

1. Sig Tune: On the Prom Prom Promenade
2. Theres No Business Like Show Business
3. Deep In My Heart Dear
4. Come Dancing
5. Nobody’s Sweetheart
6. Look For The Silver Lining
7. ???
8. Harry Lime Theme
9. Anything Goes
10. Rose Of England
11. The Very Thought Of You
12. S’ Wonderful
13. Lovely Lady
14. Circus Polka
15. I Remember You
16. Chromatique Samba
17. Sig Tune: On the Prom Prom Promenade

All tracks played on the 3/13 Wurlitzer in the Opera House, Blackpool, broadcast unknown date.

Recordings from the Nigel Ogden Archive.

Episode 568 – From The Archive: Vic Hammett

This weeks show is from the archive and features Vic Hammett, at the Town Hall Buckingham

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Music Played

1. Sig Tune: Beyond The Blue Horizon
2. Cherokee
3. I’m Confessin’
4. Pale Moon
5. Throughly Modern Mille/Jimmy
6. I Can Give You The Starlight
7. Got The Bench, Got The Park/A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
8. Climb Every Mountain
9. Sig Tune: Beyond The Blue Horizon

All tracks played on the 3/10 Wurlitzer in the Town Hall, Buckingham , broadcast 14th December 1967. Recording from the Nigel Ogden Archive.

Episode 544 – From The Archive: Stanley Wyllie

This week, John Leemings from the archive show features a moonlight lullaby played by Stanley Wyllie at the Ritz Belfast.

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Music Played

Clair de Lune (signature tune)
Kisses in the Dark
She Moved thro’ the Fair
Walk Hand in Hand
Serenade for My lady
O for the Wings of a Dove
Down by the River
Serenade to Moonlight
The Little Shepherd
How Beautiful Is Night
Love, Here Is My Heart
Clair de Lune (signature tune)

All tracks played on the 4c/10 Compton in the Ritz, Belfast, broadcast 11th September 1956. Recording from the John Leeming Archive.

Episode 531 – From The Archive: Arnold Loxam

This week’s from the archive show features Arnold Loxam at the Gaumont State Kilburn.

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Music Played

Sig Tune: Come Back To Sorrento

March Of The Victors

Let Me Go Lover/As Usual/Have You Ever Been Lovely/Thank You/Anyone Who Had A Heart

Spring Medley: Younger Than Springtime/Cuckoo Waltz

I Love The Little Things/I Am The Lovely One

For You/It Happened In Monterey/A Chapel In The Moonlight/It Might As Well Be Spring/Diane

Little Children/Think Of You/All My Loving/Over You

Sig Tune: Come Back To Sorrento

All tracks played on the 4/16 Wurlitzer in the Gaumont State Kilburn, London, broadcast 21st March 1965. Recording from the Nigel Ogden Archive. Recording re-mastered with Adobe Audition. 

Episode 528 – From The Archive: Nelson Elms

This week’s from the archive show features Nelson Elms at the Granada Tooting.

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Music Played

Sig Tune: Trees

March From The Victors

Marie Elena

Colette

Laura

Richard Rodgers Selection

Geronimo

Secret Love

From Russia With Love

Swinging Bells

You Were Meant For Me/Moon River/If I Ruled The World

Sig Tune: Trees

All tracks played on the 4/14 Wurlitzer in the Granada Tooting, London, broadcast 1st February 1964. Recording from the Nigel Ogden Archive. Recording re-mastered with Adobe Audition. 

Episode 516 – From The Archive: Bobby Pagan

This week’s from the archive show features Bobby Pagan at the Ritz Richmond Wurlitzer.

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Music Played

Thunderbirds March

Wonderful Copenhagen/Hear My Song Violetta

Limehouse Blues

So Whats New?

A In The Black Forest

I Only Have Eyes For You

Spanish Flea

Michelle

The Wedding Of The Painted Doll

I Wish You Love/The Surry With The Fringe On Top

Yes We Have No Bannas

If I Were A Rich Man/It’s Almost Like Being In Love

All tracks played on the 3/8 Wurlitzer in the Ritz Richmond, broadcast 1967. Original recording from the Jim Buckland Archive. Recording re-mastered with Adobe Audition. 

Episode 512 – From The Archive: Reginald Dixon

This week’s from the archive show features Reginald Dixon at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool Wurlitzer.

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Music Played

Highway Patrol March

White Horse Inn Selection

Coronation Scott

Jumping Bean

Exctacy

Cherokee/Whispering/Moonlight And Roses/Nobody’s Sweetheart Now

Smiling Through

Tunes Of The Day: When Mexico Gave Up The Rhumba/When Lilacs Bloom Again/More/In The Middle Of The House/Rocking Through The Rye

All tracks played on the 3/14 Wurlitzer in the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, broadcast 1956. Original recording from the Damon Cox Archive. Recording re-mastered with Adobe Audition.